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Example sentences for "happily"

Lexicographically close words:
happeth; happie; happier; happiest; happilie; happin; happines; happiness; happinesse; happinesses
  1. He must be a wretch who is unmoved at hearing such a story; how transporting then must be the thought of having happily acted a part in this scene!

  2. At length they arrived at the very spot where Sophia unhappily dropt the pocket-book, and where the fellow had as happily found it.

  3. In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of Latin to read Virgil.

  4. Thus the four brothers lived happily for a long time.

  5. They lived quite happily together for a long time.

  6. The parents of the boy gave a big feast in honor of the occasion, and the son and his wife lived very happily together.

  7. You know yourself how earnestly, in the last months of the last year, I laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.

  8. It appeared that everything had gone on quietly and happily until a few evenings previous to my arrival at Shanghae, when one night Marie and her relatives were startled by a loud knocking at the door.

  9. Time flew onward at Nankin with seemingly treble rapidity, so happily passed the days with myself and European comrades.

  10. Happily a friend of the family, the Assessor Branting, took a fancy to the handsome and clever boy and offered him a home in his house.

  11. My inner nature emerges from the crisis like the hibernating bear from his den, emaciated and exhausted, but happily with my ursine sinews well preserved; and by and by some flesh will be growing on them again.

  12. Happily we are not particularly in need of that admonition on our side of the ocean.

  13. Happily we have the Chaldæan cemeteries and the sculptured monuments of Assyria to which we can turn for information.

  14. The glare of such a wall was happily contrasted with the soft verdure that sometimes grew about it, and the dark blue of the sky against which its summit was relieved.

  15. The strength of these angular piers contrasts happily with the elegance of the columns between them.

  16. The closed petals of the one the open ones of the other and the divisions of the calix are indicated in a fashion that happily combines truth with convention.

  17. The whole forms a happily conceived little monument; it is probable that it was originally accompanied by an explanatory inscription.

  18. An imagination prone to the picturesque insists at this stage upon a vision of the latter days of one of the less happily situated lines.

  19. People who cannot live happily and freely in the world without spoiling the lives of others are better out of it.

  20. But I am convinced that a large proportion of married couples in the world to-day are not completely and happily matched, that there is much mutual limitation, mutual annulment and mutual exasperation.

  21. The experiences of this shipwrecked family are thus happily characterized by the Spectator: They did sail in the tubs, and train zebras and ostriches for riding, and grow apples and pines in the same garden; and why shouldn't they?

  22. This tendency has happily not yet gone far in England; but here, as elsewhere, it represents the one great danger, the tendency to be watched.

  23. Happily the general rise in the standard of life itself furnishes a solution.

  24. And so we were most happily disappointed to find in the sequel that the guide had even failed to rise to the magnitude of his subject.

  25. Can those other uninspired visitors do it, or do they only happily imagine they do?

  26. Happily for us, we had encamped amidst thick bushes upon a spot broken and difficult of access to quadrupeds, otherwise we should have been discovered, and there would have been an end to my adventures.

  27. Happily for me, the boat belonged to an American exceedingly fond of fishing; and consequently it contained many necessaries which I had before overlooked.

  28. Happily for me and my two companions, there still remained two or three gentlemen in San Antonio.

  29. He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect.

  30. We live happily indeed, though we call nothing our own!

  31. This list was not very happily drawn up, as out of the eighteen instances there is not a single one that stands inquiry; yet it was a happy idea, and one which has not even yet yielded all that it promised.

  32. We live happily indeed, free from ailments among the ailing!

  33. We live happily indeed, free from greed among the greedy!

  34. Carry us happily to the other shore of our anguish, and ward off all assaults of mischief.

  35. The second I saw, and thought it extremely interesting, and very happily written.

  36. You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

  37. Jo behaved herself with exemplary propriety, and when Amy was happily surrounded by her guard of honor, Jo circulated about the Hall, picking up various bits of gossip, which enlightened her upon the subject of the Chester change of base.

  38. But it's not as bad as it looks, and one can get on quite happily if one has something in one's self to fall back upon.

  39. Those foolish, yet well meant words, had opened a new world to Meg, and much disturbed the peace of the old one in which till now she had lived as happily as a child.

  40. Happily she knew nothing of the incident just described.

  41. Happily the wound was very slight, and, to do the poor damsel justice, she could not see that her master was jumping from one place to another like a caged lion.

  42. The hay would not have sufficed to break the fall sufficiently, but happily the cart was an old one.

  43. But that night, before Waveney fell asleep happily in her Pansy Room, Nurse Helena's homely words recurred to her.

  44. Moritz smiled happily to himself as he thought of the family diamonds, over which Gwen had gloated, and which he had vainly entreated her to wear.

  45. Waveney chatted happily to the child, while Tristram watched them with the lazy enjoyment of a tired man; and she never wondered why Mr. Chaytor was absent so long until he re-entered the room in his ulster.

  46. The little one was chattering happily to her, and Joanna was fondly stroking the plait of fair hair.

  47. And then Mollie cheered up and forgot her fears, and they packed happily until it was time to go out.

  48. Indeed, with this happily met couple, time flew by on feathered wings.

  49. All the sculptured stones have happily been placed in the custody of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

  50. To one born for the good of the republic-- an inscription which, supposing it to be perfect, though this is a little doubtful, is happily contrived to be complimentary to each successive emperor.

  51. The description which Hutton gives of them happily holds good at the present moment-- I now travel over a large common, still upon the Wall, with its trench nearly complete.

  52. And this information happily was found to agree with that of the passport.

  53. This colossal cylinder has to-day no visible use; but it corresponds, happily enough, with the great circle of the prospect.

  54. One who is my neighbor is now scrubber and cleaner, and is happily friends with a 'concierge,' who allows her to aid him.

  55. But they are the smallest proportion of this vast army of London toilers, whose pitiful wage is earned by a day's labor which happily has no counterpart in length with us, save among the lowest grade of needlewomen.

  56. They happily left to Nature's Choice the one factor they could not control, and planned to accept an infant of either sex with equal welcome.

  57. Books that were written adequately for his understanding of this problem signed off with the trite explanation that they lived happily ever afterwards but did not say a darned thing about how they went about it.

  58. I have never parted with one thousand dollars so happily in my life.

  59. Now, happily to this date James had not broken any laws.

  60. For twelve years Fortunatus and Cassandra and their two little boys lived happily in Famagosta.

  61. So she spoke to him, and they lived happily to the end of their days, because the girl kept the promise she had made to the ogre.

  62. Then there was great rejoicing throughout the land, and the king rewarded his son-in-law with half of his kingdom, and he and his wife reigned happily over it.

  63. Then the prince claimed the nun as his bride, and they all lived happily together till they died.

  64. Then, at last, Prunella was touched by Bensiabel's goodness and kindness to her, and she became his wife, and they lived happily ever after.

  65. Antonio very soon married off his sister, made his mother rich for life, and they all lived happily for ever after.

  66. They lived happily for many years, and ruled their people well.

  67. So they were married, and lived happily for many years, and reigned wisely over their kingdom.

  68. So Renzolla lived happily ever afterwards, for she loved her husband, honoured the fairy, and was grateful to the old man for having told her the truth.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "happily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cheerfully; favorably; gaily; gladly; happily; hopefully; joyfully; lightly; pleasantly; readily; soon; well